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Re:California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the s... by tmh79 on Monday December 25, 2017 @03:00AM (#16003235)
Zoning is not a property right in California Law, and community governance is not purchased through home ownership. Tenants and "live in owners" have the same amounts of votes in the system, 1. What you are describing, the enfranchisement of voters in a political system through land ownership is actually feudalism.
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Re:California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the s... by BurningFrog on Monday December 25, 2017 @11:20AM (#16004622)
> Zoning is not a property right in California Law

It certainly is in San Francisco at least. Well, probably not literally zoning, but regulations around it make the home owners in an area de facto owners of it in many ways.

I see the current housing crisis as a direct result of this.

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